Ordinary countryside reborn

The deceased was Wang Xiuhong’s grandmother.

Tianyuan came to her house several times when he was a child. When he grew up, he had to help the family with work and rarely went out to play because of his introverted personality. Tianyuan didn't have much impression of this grandma.

At this age, most people are old people who are suffering from illness and cannot get rid of it.

There was no sadness on Wang Xiuhong's face. She only chatted with Tian Yuan for a few words and was called out to help again.

Tianyuan was bored sitting in the room, so he went out and walked around, occasionally meeting male classmates from the village.

Everyone has grown up, and it is no longer like when we were children, boys would not play with girls, and girls would avoid boys when they saw them.

Liu Yuting, a female classmate in the same period as Tian Yuan, went to another place to study as a nurse. Tian Yuan was never seen again. Wang Xiuhong and Tian Xiao were rarely in the village, and the rest were all male classmates.

We haven't played together much before, and now when we see him, we just say hello by calling him by name and smiling.

The filial sons wore white on their heads and tied white cloth strips around their waists, and followed the Taoist priests in the mourning hall to pay homage around the wooden coffin.

Tian Zhi was helping Wang Gui carry tables and chairs, occasionally scolding a few troublesome children. The crackling sound of firecrackers never stopped, and the dogs in the village came to join in the fun. Occasionally, they would pick up one or two pieces of indistinguishable parts thrown to the ground from the kitchen.

At the banquet, Tianyuan had a noisy lunch, and Tianzhi said hello and went home first.

Li Mei was still frying tofu, the fire was blazing, and the smell of hot breath and oily smoke filled the entire kitchen.

Seeing Tian Yuan coming back so quickly, Li Mei asked: "Where is your dad? Why are you back so soon, have you finished eating?"

"After eating, Dad is still drinking. Maybe he will stay and help later."

Tian Yuan sat over and helped Tian Yu wash the radishes. He had a large pot of white radishes, leaving a few to stew the bones, and the rest to feed the pigs.

Li Mei: "Tsk, tsk, I didn't ask him to help, but I took the initiative to help. I didn't know that he would come back to help me, so I just pretended to be generous."

It seems that in every family in the village, the mother is coordinating and nagging, and the father is either the hands-off shopkeeper or being directed around.

It was not easy for Tianyuan to interfere in the affairs of the couple. She was immersed in washing the radishes and asked: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, my sister's shop is not closed yet? Is the business in the shop very good now?"

Li Mei was instantly changed the subject, "She said the business was very good. Not to mention your aunt's things, all the ones made by your mother Li and Xiaoping were also bought. They are still working hard these days."

"Your sister said she won't come back until the 30th day. Oh, she also said she bought shoes and clothes for you and Xiaoyu and will bring them back to you then."

Did you buy some clothes?

I guess Tianyuan...may not be my favorite style.

Tian Yu was very happy and looked forward to her eldest sister coming back soon at home every day. Although Li Mei also bought her new clothes, they were always red every year. What she disliked the most now was red.

On the night of New Year's Eve, the family had a sumptuous reunion dinner.

Tian Zhi rubbed his belly and sat next to the fire pit to warm himself up. Li Mei took out his account book and was summarizing this year's income.

Excluding tuition and other expenses, their family saved more than 20,000 yuan this year.

In addition to the 10,000 yuan given by Tianyuan and the money lent to his two younger brothers to build a house, not counting the confiscated part for the time being, all of these are added together, and there are 40,000 yuan.

Today is the Chinese New Year. Tian Zhi was allowed to drink a few glasses of wine. Now he is blushing and frowning in a slow manner, "How much?"

Li Mei looked at him with a smile.

"I saved 40,000 yuan this year." Li Mei repeated with a smile.

At this moment, she could best understand Tian Zhi's mood. Tian Zhi carefully put down the tea bowl in his hand, stretched out his hand towards Li Mei, and said in disbelief: "Bring it here and let me see, have you made so much money?"

Li Mei handed over the account book. Tian Zhi couldn't read the words, but he still knew the numbers, so he just stared at the numbers in the last row.

Tian Jing looked towards Tianyuan.

I really didn’t expect Tian Yuan to make so much money by himself.

She stood up and went back to the room.

"Yuanyuan, Xiaoyu, I bought you clothes and shoes, you go and try them out."

Tian Jing took out two sets of clothes and handed them to her two sisters respectively. Then she went back to the room to get two coats, "Dad, Mom, these are the clothes I bought for you. Try them on to see if they fit."

Tian Zhi quickly put away the account book and took the clothes, "Why did you buy them for me? Your mother has already bought me clothes for the New Year."

As he said this, his face was filled with smiles.

The family put on the new clothes Tian Jing bought, admired and praised each other, and after they were satisfied, they put on their original clothes again, made a charcoal fire and went to the room.

Turn on the TV, the Spring Festival Gala has begun.

Singing and dancing, acrobatics, sketches, operas, cross talk and other performances are performed in turns in various forms, which is dizzying.

Tianyuan also watched it with gusto. The current Spring Festival Gala is still very good to watch, but it will be completely different in ten years.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, no matter how stiff the relationship between the Tianyuan family and Tian Dafu is, they are the elders after all, and this process is indispensable.

Li Mei prepared a lot of gifts as usual. She didn't care if Tian Dafu said good things or bad things. She just kept her etiquette and let everyone in the village know who was being unreasonable.

As expected, none of the third uncle's family came back. This year Tian Dafu and Tian Bing had another lonely year.

Huddled in this dark earth house, only the firewood in the fire pit could warm the father and son.

Tian Zhi looked a little sad. When he put down the gift, Tian Bing enthusiastically made tea for him. Tian Dafu also asked him a few questions with concern. Tian Zhi was flattered. He didn't get such treatment last year.

To be honest, Tian Zhi also knew very well that this was all because his family's economic level had improved, otherwise, he might still not get any good looks here.

It becomes boring if you think about it too much.

Tian Zhi finally persuaded Tian Bing to stay and had dinner with Li Mei.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I went to my grandma's house. There were too few vehicles on the road. The family finally stopped a car, but it was full of people.

The driver took a small bench to squeeze out some space and put the gifts in the trunk. Li Mei got into the car with Tian Yu in her arms.

The two sisters Tian Zhi and Tian Jing could only walk there.

Although I was wearing a lot of clothes, walking for several kilometers in such a snowy day, the countryside was still so cold that my feet felt like they were no longer my own.

All she was thinking about at the moment was that after the college entrance examination, she had to get a driver's license first.

There were many people walking like them. Tian Zhi always met a few acquaintances on the road, but apart from a few words at the beginning, everyone had no intention of chatting anymore.

A few mouthfuls of cold wind made my whole body shiver.